Improvement in washing-machines



L. BEAULIEN.

Washing-Machines.

FG' isglo' Patented May 20, 1873' VVITNESSES. INVENTOH.

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LEVI BEAULIEN, OF WOONSOGKEQ RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,107, dated May 20,1873; application led April 29, 1873.

reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of thisspecification, and to thel letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawing isa representation oi' a top view of myinvention. Fig. 2 is'y a sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to washing-machines; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement, in a semi-cylindrical orcurved-bottom tub, of the different semicylindrical washers or rubbers,independently piv oted to the walls of the tub and to arms projectinginto the tub, and operated by levers connected by pitmen with cranks ofthe operating-shaft, having such angular relation to each other that themovements of the washers will be made in different times, orsuccessively, thereby avoiding the crowding of the goods at one end ofthe tub.

In the accompanyin gdrawin g, theletterAindicates the tub ofthewashing-machine, provided with suitable standards B and the side arms C.This tub is, preferably, semi-cylindrical in form, and has a double wallformed by securing the sheet of zinc a to the edges of the side pieces Dand to the outside of the boards E, and a sheet of corrugated or lutedzinc, F, to the inside of said boards E. From the end to which the armsO are secured the boards G project into the tub and partly across thesame, and are slotted vertically, as at b, to serve as journal-seats forthe journals of the rubbers.

To the upper edges of one or more of these arms, and to one or bothwalls ofthe tub, are

pivoted the bridges c. oi' the arms or boards G are illustrated,forming, with the side walls of the tub, bearings for the journals ofthree independent washers, H.. Each of these washers consists of twosemicircular cheeks, d, connected by a number of rounded slats or bars,e, and a center board, g, through which passes the upright bar h, whichis stepped in the central rubbingbar e at one end, and at the other orupper end is pivoted to the pitman k, by which it is connected .with itsindependent crank Z of the crank-shaft z. 'Ihe crankshaft is journaledin suitable seats in the arms G, and its cranks are arranged in angularrelation to each other, so that the rubbers or washers H will be movedbackand forth in different times in the tub, thereby avoiding thebanking or packing of the goods being washed in one place.

I/Vhen it-is desired to remove the goods from the tub the washers areraised and the bridges c are thrown transversely underneath to supportthe Washers above the goods and out of the tub.

Metallic bands a are used to bind the lower zinc bottom a iirmly to theend boards E ot' the frame.y

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination, with a tub having the inner arms G parallel with itsside walls, of the independently-journaled washers H, levers l1, pitmank, and crank-shaft z, having several cranks, Z, one for each washer,arranged in angular relation to each other, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claimy the above I have hereunto'subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: LEVI BEAULIEN.

EDWARD BEAULIEN, GEORGE A. WILBUR.

In the drawing two y

